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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Is JKR here?

125 replies

hipsterfunk · 10/05/2024 21:44

JKR, are you here?

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Withswitch · 11/05/2024 21:32

LizzieSiddal · 11/05/2024 19:58

That woman has ruined me. I finished Running Grave last month and every other book I’ve picked up since is inferior and inadequate in comparison.
So whilst I love her for all she does for women, I do need another book to read.

I'm listening to the Dublin murder squad books and I've gone through the Jackson Brodie ones. They're both good and I wouldn't have looked at them if I wasn't searching "crime books like strike with a will they won't they" so JKR also helping fellow female authors out.

WhenWillTheSunShineIWonder · 11/05/2024 21:36

I really hope so, the woman is fearless and I bloody love her!

Needapadlockonmyfridge · 11/05/2024 21:45

Thank you Joanne :)
Thank you.

LizzieSiddal · 11/05/2024 21:50

Withswitch · 11/05/2024 21:32

I'm listening to the Dublin murder squad books and I've gone through the Jackson Brodie ones. They're both good and I wouldn't have looked at them if I wasn't searching "crime books like strike with a will they won't they" so JKR also helping fellow female authors out.

Thank you, I’ll give them a go.

Delphin · 11/05/2024 22:37

@PaintDiagram :
I’ve wanted to write to her for a while but I guess she’s got no PO Box.

When I was still in school in the early 1980s, I wrote to a British author whose autobiography I loved. I looked up the original British publisher in the book and wrote a letter via the publisher (with an incomplete address like ABC Publishers, XYZ Town, UK). It took a while, but I got an answer :-).

Bumblebee907 · 11/05/2024 22:43

Not a fan.

Bumblebee907 · 11/05/2024 22:45

Although haven't read her latest book!

lifeturnsonadime · 11/05/2024 23:09

I'm sure she's on here too. I think she name changes.

Sometimes there are posters who write ordinary posts beautifully and I wonder.

Her twitter posts show, for me, that she's on here. Some of the things she writes are very similar to points made on threads on here.

Flowers Joanne Rowling, keep going. The world is waking up to the harms to women and children and you are providing a voice that can be heard x

IwantToRetire · 12/05/2024 00:29

I was going to start a thread about this article, and then thought no, a bit fanziny, but this thread gives me a perfect excuse.

From last week's sunday times.

JK Rowling: ‘I’ve got six more books in my head’
From the pressure of Harry Potter to where she writes best, for the first time the bestselling author invites readers into her creative world
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-books-writing-harry-potter-strike-bdg7gtg5q

Article can be read in full at https://archive.ph/r9rCj

JK Rowling: ‘I’ve got six more books in my head’

From the pressure of Harry Potter to where she writes best, for the first time the bestselling author invites readers into her creative world

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-books-writing-harry-potter-strike-bdg7gtg5q

DameMaud · 12/05/2024 01:30

INeedAPensieve · 11/05/2024 21:29

Thank you for all you've done Joanne (if you are a lurker on these boards).

As the Scottish mum of a vulnerable autistic wee boy, your bravery and "constant vigilance"(as Mad Eye Moody would say) against the erosion of child safeguarding and women and girl's rights makes me so grateful.

I can't wait to start reading both my DC all of the Harry Potter books when they are old enough.

A legend. 💐🐘
Also randomly my phone has added an elephant to my message and I can't seem to delete it!!!! So it remains...

An elephant is actually perfect.
Elephants are fierce, protective, and have a very, very long memory.

TinselAngel · 12/05/2024 11:33

Bumblebee907 · 11/05/2024 22:43

Not a fan.

She'll be gutted.

Tallisker · 12/05/2024 12:59

And she wrote Harry Potter in The Elephant House.

Rainbowshit · 12/05/2024 13:25

I sent an email to her after she wrote her essay, thanking her for her courage in standing up for females, and got a lovely reply from an assistant.

MillOnTheGoss · 12/05/2024 14:46

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quantumbutterfly · 12/05/2024 16:10

RealFeminist · 10/05/2024 22:20

AH LOVE A WEE SEANCE AW THAT KNOCKIN

knock once for yes and twice for no

Bumblebee907 · 12/05/2024 16:53

@TinselAngel That's so random, of course she won't 😂

hipsterfunk · 12/05/2024 23:24

Superb JKR post on X at 4:45pm today Star

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Karensalright · 12/05/2024 23:28

@Bumblebee907 the joke is on you.

SwordToFlamethrower · 13/05/2024 00:04

Hi Joanne! If you're here, I just want to say I love HP and I love the Strike novels. I don't even like detective/whodunit stuff but I gave Strike a go and I've become hooked and obsessed! Pat is amazing. Robin is so relatable for me as well as an inspiration.

And as a mother with a daughter who was affirmed in secret by her school and her dad, (my abuser) at age 12, and now estranged because I said no... I cannot thank you enough for speaking up on behalf of mothers like me who have been left bereft.

SwordToFlamethrower · 13/05/2024 00:05

AmadeustheAlpaca · 11/05/2024 00:42

There's a Mumsnetter who posts very regularly in these boards. She writes very well researched articulate posts and was also out of the country at the same time that JKR was out of the country. I'm not saying anymore.

It's not MrsTerryPratchett is it?

LauderSyme · 13/05/2024 00:26

SwordToFlamethrower · 13/05/2024 00:05

It's not MrsTerryPratchett is it?

I always enjoy her intelligent, insightful and often humorous posts, whoever she is 🙂

AmadeustheAlpaca · 13/05/2024 01:41

I wasn't thinking about Mrs Terry P. I'm going to be annoying and not say who I think may be JKR because its not fair to that poster., but I have my suspicions.

Bumblebee907 · 13/05/2024 07:36

Karensalright · 12/05/2024 23:28

@Bumblebee907 the joke is on you.

🙄 😂 Deep.

Lwrenn · 13/05/2024 07:43

If jk is, and this is a wild ask, but could you tell me your foundation? I struggle to find the shade of ghost white I need, everything, even the most ivory of ivory goes orange on me and I'm getting well sick of my airhostess from the 90s orange face.
If you could help a pale sister out jk, I'd appreciate it 😊

OutOfTheHouse · 13/05/2024 07:52

Lwrenn · 13/05/2024 07:43

If jk is, and this is a wild ask, but could you tell me your foundation? I struggle to find the shade of ghost white I need, everything, even the most ivory of ivory goes orange on me and I'm getting well sick of my airhostess from the 90s orange face.
If you could help a pale sister out jk, I'd appreciate it 😊

I’m not JKR but as someone who makes a glass of milk look tanned I recommend Il Makiage.

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